Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-12-22

imply he was about TO b handed over T.
the oversesr Of the poor. Careful to pay
their passage from Liverpool to New
York, yet smuggling in their Saratoga
trunk ten silk dresses from Paris and . half
dozen watches from Geneva, Switzer-
land, telling the custom-house officer on
the wharf. There is nothing in that
trunk but wearing apparel" aud putting
q five dollar gold-piece in his hand to
punctuate the statement
Described in the text arc all those who
are particular never to break tho Law Of
grammar, and who want all their language
an elegant specimen of syntax. straining
ont all the inaccuracies of speech with .
fine sieve of literary criticism, while
through their conversation 60 Islander
and innuendo. and profanity and false
hood larger than q whole caravan Of cam.
els, when they might better fracture
every law OF ths language and
shock intellectual taste, and bot
ter let every verb sock in vain
for its nominafive, and every
noun for its government, and every pre-
position lose its wav in the sentence, and
adjectives and participles and prOnouns
get into a grand riot worthy of the
Fourth Ward on election dav, than to
commit moral inaceuracy. Bstter swal-
low thousand Snats than one camel.
Such persons are also described in the
text who are very much alarmed about
the small faults of others, and have nc
a'arEl about their own transgressions.
There are in every community and in
every church watchdogs who feel called
upon to keep their eyes on others and
growl. They are full of suspicion.
They wonder if that man is not d shonest,
it that man is not unclean, if there is not
something wrong about the other man.
They are always the first to hear of any
thing wrong. Vultures are always the
first to smell carrion They are self.
appointed detectives. Law this down as
a rule, without any exception, that those
people who have the most faults them
selves are the most merciless in their
watching of Others. From scalp of head
to sole of foot they are full of jealousies
and hypercritic' SINS. They spend their
life in hunting for muskrats and mud.tur-
ties, instead of hunting for Rocky Mount
ain eagles; always for something
mean instead of something grand.
They look at their neighbors' impsrfec-
tons through microscope, and look at
their own imperfections through teles-
cope upside down. Twenty faults Of
their own do not hurt them so much as
one fault of somebody else. Their neigh
bors' imnerfections are like gnats, and
they strain them out; their own inIper-
fections are like camels, and they swal-
low them.
But lest some might think they escape
the scrutiny Of the text, have to tell you
that we all come undec the Divine satire
when we make the questions Of time
more prominent than the questions OF
eternity. Come, now, let us all sc
into the confessional. Arc not all
tempted to make the question. Where
shall live now? greater than the ques.
ton. Where shall I live forever? How
shall get more dollars here? greater than
the question, How shall lay up treasures
in Heaven? The quest ion. How shall
pay my debts to man? greater than the
question, How shall l meet my obliga.
tions to God? The question, How shall l
gain the world? greater than the ques.
ton, What if lose my soul? The ques-
ton. Why did God les sin come into the
world, greater than the question, How
shall get extirrated from my nature?
The question. What shall l do with
the twenty, or forty or seventy
years of my sublunar existence:
greater than the question, What
shall do with the millions of cycles of
my post-terrestrial existence! Time, how
small it is! Eternity. how vast it is! The
former more insignificant in comparison
with the latter than gnat is insignificant
when compared with camel We dodg
the text. We said: THAT DOESN'T mean
me, and that doe sr't mean me-" and with
a ruinous benevolence we are giving the
whole sermon away.
But let us all surrender to the charge.
What an ado about things here. What
poor preparation for a great
eternity. AS though a minnow were
larger than beh emOth, as
though a swallow took wider circuit than
an albatross, as though a nette were
taller than a Lebanon cedar. rs though a
gnat were greater than camel, as though
a minute were longer than a century, as
though time were higher. deeper, broader
than eternity. So the text which flashed
with lightning of wit as Christ uttered it
is followed by the ccashing thunders of
awful catastrophe to those who make the
questions of the tins greater than the
questions Of the future, the oncoming,
future. o eternity!
eternity!